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Chargers upset Vikings for first regional title

By DAVID VANTRESS For Northwest News Last season the Carroll High School softball team won its first ever IHSAA Class 4A sectional championship. What would the Chargers do for an encore in 2023? Well, first they won their second sectional title last week over DeKalb. Then on Tuesday night, ...

Baseball Chargers fall to Barons in season-ending thriller

By DAVID VANTRESS For Northwest News Sometimes, there’s nothing like a good old-fashioned pitchers' duel. That was the case for baseball fans at Carroll High School the evening of May 26 as DeKalb and Carroll met in the semifinals of the Class 4A Carroll Sectional. DeKalb triumphed, ...

No-hitter gives Carroll sectional title

By Mark Murdock mmurdock@kpcmedia.com WATERLOO — An outstanding pitching performance spoiled the first sectional championship game appearance since 2016 for the DeKalb softball team. Carroll sophomore Emilia Garcia pitched a no-hitter with 14 strikeouts as the Chargers defeated the Barons ...

Chargers’ Wenz to cheer at Purdue

By DAVID VANGTRESS For Northwest News There will now be two former Carroll Chargers serving as cheerleaders for the Purdue Boilermakers this fall. Katie Wenz made it official last week and will join teammate Alaina Roach in West Lafayette. Wenz signed her letter of intent to attend Purdue ...

Chargers’ Roach commits to cheer at Purdue

By DAVID VANTRESS For Northwest News Carroll High School cheerleader Ailani Roach has signed a letter of intent to cheer at Purdue University. Roach signed the pledge at an April 26 ceremony at Carroll. Roach said getting the chance to be a Boilermaker cheerleader is a dream come ...

Roundup: Boys volleyball team falls at regional

From staff reports FISHERS — Carroll’s boys volleyball team’s inaugural season came to an end May 20 with a loss to Hamilton Southeastern at the regional tournament. The Royals prevailed over the Chargers, 25-7, 25-9, 25-15. Carroll finished 22-6 in its first season. Prep ...

Charger boys volleyball excels in first year

By DAVID VANTRESS For the Northwest News It’s not very often that you get the chance to be part of the birth of a new sport in the state of Indiana. But along with their counterparts at high schools all across the Hoosier State, boys athletes at Carroll High School are doing just that ...

Sports roundup: Charger nine drop three of four games

From staff reports Carroll’s baseball team stumbled a bit last week after getting out to a 15-0 start in 2023: The Chargers dropped three of four. Carroll lost to Westfield, 5-3 on Tuesday, May 2; fell to Bishop Luers, 4-3 on Wednesday, May 3; and dropped their first page of the Plymouth ...

Sports roundup: Charger boys volleyball rolling in first year

From staff reports COLUMBIA CITY — This is the first year for boys volleyball as an emerging sport in Indiana and the Carroll Chargers are off to a great start. Carroll is 15-4 entering the final week of the 2023 regular season after sweeping Columbia City last Thursday night, 3-0. The ...

Fordyce, Gibbs take prep court one last time

By DAVID VANTRESS For the Northwest News Taylor Fordyce and Kayla Gibbs have been standout guards for the Carroll High School girls basketball team for the past several years. They’ll both be moving on to college this fall: Fordyce at the University of Saint Francis and Gibbs at Spring ...